Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban on October 9, 2012, for campaigning about education and women’s rights in the Swat District of Pakistan. A gunman targeted the 15-year-old as she travelled home on the school bus and she was flown to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Malala has featured in a New York Times documentary, won Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize and has been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize.